We feel such a strong connection to nature. But the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall.
ALAN LIGHTMANI would do something and let it sit for three months… just brood about and decide I needed to slightly change something here or there. Or one character wasn’t quite right. But I think everybody goes through this.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
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One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones.
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It’s the journeyto get there. It’s a way of thinking and it’s an intellectual curiosity, a desire to know how the world works, and to know what the fundamental principles of the world are, and to know our place in it.
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Just didn’t know whether I would finish the book much less for it to come close to what I intended. I think that for any novel you never know exactly how the book is going to turn out…
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I wouldn’t overall say that “The Diagnosis” is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It’s a modern tragedy.
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I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can’t just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it’s really in how the technology is used.
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Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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I think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country… people have such a broad respect for him as a moral force.
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A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer – in the form of a review or something.
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In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,
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As I understand it, a universe is a … well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.
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Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions?
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Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself.
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Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting. Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational.
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Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea.
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